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The Elizabeth George Foundation Co Susan E George

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$576k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0122% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Arts & Culture$324kYouth Development$225kReligion$55kEducation$20kHuman Services$10kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
Individual grant recipient$27,500
Individual grant recipient$26,400
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Sterling Holy White Mountain$25,000
Mandy Moe Pwint Tu$25,000
Individual grant recipient$23,750
Individual grant recipient$23,000
Individual grant recipient$22,300
Individual grant recipient$22,200
Individual grant recipient$20,500
Individual grant recipient$20,000
SEATTLE ARTS LECTURES$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Youth Justice Network: $10k → 17%SHOES THAT FIT: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 28 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
123

Total granted

$1.2M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+27%

Still filing today

25%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Wordcrafters in Eugene
    4× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +33%
  • OJ
    OPERATION JUMP START
    2× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +8%
  • CT
    CHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +209%

Funded once

  • OF
    ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue +27%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $39k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $35k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Academy of Childrens Theatre

To provide quality educational opportunities in the theatre arts for young people of all abilities and levels of interest to produce quality theatre for and by the young with appeal to all ages to expose the community to diverse ideas and…

Arts & Culture
2
Artists Repertory Theatre

Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.

Arts & Culture
3
Columbia Childrens Theatre

Inspired by the intelligence and emotional wisdom of young people, we create professional theatre for youth and families, foster inclusive community, and nurture meaningful learning through the arts. We provide these experiences through…

Arts & Culture
4
Profile Theatre Project

Profile theatres mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a season-long featured writer whose vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective…

Arts & Culture
5
Young Playwrights Theater

Young Playwrights Theater (YPT) is committed to using theater & writing to foster dialogue, arts education, literacy & conflict resolution in communities.

Arts & Culture
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Youth Theatre Northwest

Nurtures the intellectual, artistic and personal development of children aged 3-18 through drama education, performing opportunities and live theatre experiences.

Arts & Culture
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Oregon Children's Theatre Company

The mission of oregon children's theater is to create exceptional theater experiences that transform lives. we do this by producing professional stage plays for young audiences, and through arts education classes and programs.

Arts & Culture
8
Bandit Theater

A Seattle-based improv theater with the mission to foster creativity, build community, and inspire personal growth through the art of comedy.

Arts & Culture
9
South Carolina Children's Theatre

Empowering and inspiring a new generation of changemakers through theatre. at scct, we define a changemaker as: someone who has empathy for others and is driven to make the world a better place. someone who is inquisitive, open minded, and…

Arts & Culture
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Children's Theatre Company and School

Children's Theatre Company exists to create extraordinary theater experiences that educate, challenge, and inspire young people and their communities.

Arts & Culture
11
Playmakers Laboratory Theatre

Playmakers laboratory (pml) is an ensemble of actor/educators who create an alternative learning environment in which children share their personal voices and celebrate the power of their imaginations. pml accomplishes this through…

Arts & Culture
12
Titan Productions Incorporated

Titan theatre company is committed to breathing new life and clarity into classical works of theatre, exploring new and contemporary language plays, and delivering adventurous and visceral theatrical experiences for our audiences and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Repertory Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Wordcrafters in Eugene. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 156 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+145 more — $3,366,891 · Other+145 moreWordcrafters in Eugene — $60,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC — $33,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE — $30,000 · Arts & CultureACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC — $28,902 · Arts & CultureTHE CHANCE THEATER — $22,000 · Arts & CultureA CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Crime & LegalOPERATION JUMP START — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentMIGHTY WRITERS — $20,000 · EducationSHOES THAT FIT — $10,000 · Human ServicesYouth Justice Network Inc — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$3,366,891Arts & Culture$183,902Crime & Legal$60,000Youth Development$30,000Education$20,000Human Services$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWordcrafters in Eugene — $60,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetThe Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas — $55,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC — $33,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION JUMP START — $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC — $28,902 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHANCE THEATER — $22,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetA CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBook-It Repertory Theatre — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYouth Justice Network Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Wordcrafters in Eugene
  • Who funds The Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas
  • Who funds SOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC
  • Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE
  • Who funds OPERATION JUMP START
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Shubert Foundation IncNY15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Elizabeth George Foundation Co Susan E George funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Wordcrafters in Eugene6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The Elizabeth George Foundation Co Susan E George?

Find your warmest path to The Elizabeth George Foundation Co Susan E George through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 156 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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